Topic: Fixing Tsop With Matrix, Smokey's Perfect Way (Read 709 times)

smokeingit · « **Reply #45 on:** March 10, 2003, 06:50:00 AM »

=( Tiz my title fixing.. not reflashing... but it does help to reflash as well. i should have titled it to "perfect aligment method" =/

dali · « **Reply #46 on:** March 18, 2003, 04:50:00 PM »

I had the same problem when I flashed mine, but then i realized that the bios could not find the dashboard that it was looking for. I wasn't sure which one it looked for, so I made several copies of yboxdash.xbe and renamed them to evoxdash.xbe and xboxdash.xbe...problem solved. On that note, exactly WHICH dashboard does the Matrix TSOP flash bios look for?

smokeingit · « **Reply #47 on:** March 18, 2003, 07:37:00 PM »

Iceage, are you using the HD that came with that xbox? and are you using a evox CD with a flash bios option?

Dali, use slayers CD or a evox CD with the option to flash the on board bios. not off the HD.

IceAge · « **Reply #48 on:** March 19, 2003, 09:14:00 AM »

Awe man... I feel like such an ass. My problem was that the wire grounded to t1 wasn't making a good connection. I finally hooked the wire 90 degrees and shoved it in the hole, then taped it. On next boot, my 'box booted straight up to my Slayer disc. A quick menu selection and voila, the trick she is done. My reason for doing this was that my screw hole was completely stripped out from removing/installing my matrix so my chip began slipping any time I would take my xbox anywere. Now I don't have to worry about that! I can't express enough thanks for the great info!!

xboxistheshiznit · « **Reply #49 on:** March 25, 2003, 01:12:00 PM »

smokeingit · « **Reply #50 on:** March 25, 2003, 01:15:00 PM »

=) knowlegde gave me the idea, just tweaked to my way.

smokeingit · « **Reply #51 on:** March 27, 2003, 11:42:00 AM »

I sometimes get the same thing soul. so by far your not alone. its almost an art to alinge it right. always leave the boot CD in the DVD drive. and yes you will get the time setting once it boots up. the last resort would be solder the matrix to the board.
another tip for you guys...

in mode 3, if you get a orange or a red blink on the eject button once it boots and you see flobber... then the code is injected and you can flash.

xboxistheshiznit · « **Reply #52 on:** March 30, 2003, 10:00:00 PM »

QUOTE (soul @ Mar 27 2003, 07:56 PM)

Is there a reason to use a boot CD since I have Evolution-x on the hard drive?

it works fine off the hdd or a cd. if you leave the points soldered you can reflash it as much as you wish from the dash (and as long as you have a good flash, you dont even need the matrix to do it

), ive had to do this a couple of times with all the new bios relases (4975, 4976, 4976.02, and a couple of customs ones)

smokeingit · « **Reply #53 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:12:00 AM »

QUOTE (soul @ Mar 27 2003, 12:56 PM)

Do still think that the red/green/orange cycle is an alignment issue? If so, I'll spend some more time on it tonight.

i know for sure that the cycle is because the chip is in perfect alignment.

MURDERER · « **Reply #54 on:** March 31, 2003, 11:01:00 AM »

If you are having an alignment issue, put a piece of wire in d0 so the pogo pushes right up against it, making a perfect alignment. If you need to see pictures of it, go to my website on TSOP flashing in my signature.

iMURDERER

ozone · « **Reply #55 on:** April 11, 2003, 09:52:00 AM »

Hey guys...

I have had the worst of luck and had a power failure, right in the middle of flashing my bios... grrrr...

Anyways, I'm gonna buy me a Xodus/matrix, but I notice it's delivered empty... Will this trick work if I flash the Matrix with the EvoX flash image from the boot cd?

- TIA

smokeingit · « **Reply #56 on:** April 11, 2003, 12:18:00 PM »

it should work... in theroy.

52volts · « **Reply #57 on:** April 21, 2003, 07:02:00 PM »

Damm I've tried for hours and still no luck. I somehow got a bad flash about 25% of the way and now i can only boot up with a matrix in place. Following somkey's way to the "T" i finally got the unit to boot up in mode 3 with "matrix tsop flash"(took about 1hr of moving the chip around). Here the problem now, the xbox booted with slayer's 2.0 cd and when trying to flsah tsop I get "manufactures ID ff Device ID ff !!unknown flash type!!". So does this mean the Tsop is totally f***up?

jamminj606 · « **Reply #58 on:** April 21, 2003, 08:46:00 PM »

Ive been going at this method for about an hour now and still cant even get this dvd-drive tray to open.

I started off with a bad xbox (i dont know how it got that way, but it was flashed before). I thought I could fix it using this method, but no luck.

I soldered a wire to the T1 point and got ready for the ground. Then I aligned the matrix (flashed with EvoX_MatriX_TSOP_flash.bin) to make the xbox flash orange/red/green in mode4. Then I ground the T1 point and switched the matrix over to mode3. After that, it just gives me the flashing red/green/orange lights. The stupid dvd tray wont even open (it makes a loud clicking sound over and over).

Anyone know what Im doing wrong?

52volts · « **Reply #59 on:** April 21, 2003, 09:16:00 PM »

jamminj606, i was where you were at. I got the matrix align enough to flash it, but that is still not good enough to boot it after the flash. I kept gettin gthe red,green,orage. After about 1 hour of moving it and loosening the screw and moving it while the dvd was clicking it booted. But now it gets error and i cant flash the tsop. It now says wrong file size. Im trying to flash it with slayers 2.0 boot disk. still need help here

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